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So, to say the last week has been a dumpster fire is drastically underselling what I've been through. This, combined with having to put things in place to migrate off Twitter, and otherwise deal with all the fallout of that hot mess has, to put it frankly, put free time at something of a premium, hence why this post took so long. For those who missed it, I did fairly long overhaul of our backend, upgrading boxes from Ubuntu 14.04, and rebuilding and replacing others.At the moment, the site is mostly working, with two exceptions, site search is still down, and IRC is still down. Deucalion has taken up the task of rebuilding the IRCd on modern server software, so it's time to lay down the road going forward past this point.Read past the fold for more information ...Read more of this story at SoylentNews.

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/15/apple-emergency-sos-via-satellite-hands-on/

hubie writes:American beaver populations are booming and their prolific dam building benefits river water quality so much, it outweighs the damaging influence of climate-driven droughts:

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.extremetech.com/internet/340982-first-ever-isp-study-reveals-arbitrary-costs-fluctuating-speeds-lack-of-options

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/340991-researchers-grew-bigger-vegetables-using-exhaled-co2-as-fertilizer

An Anonymous Coward writes:Morning light helps keep our internal clocks on track. Daylight saving time throws that off:

Freeman writes:Scheduling the daily five-letter puzzle is more demanding than you might think

liar writes:Earth now weighs six ronnagrams:

We all know that when somebody gets unauthorised access to your computer hardware that security is out of the window! But what if you have to leave your hardware unattended but ostensibly in a 'secure' location - your hotel room or somebody else's home? fab23 has submitted this article on what you can do if that is the case:fab23 writes:The SANS Internet Storm Center published the guest diary Evil Maid Attacks - Remediation for the Cheap:

hubie writes:'Protein hunger' drives overeating, large-scale population study shows:

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.howtogeek.com/848711/waymos-self-driving-taxis-are-becoming-meteorologists/

Runaway1956 writes:The easy to use App Track Protection feature will block third party companies snooping in your apps:

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/11/17/1063352/new-tick-borne-disease-killing-cattle-in-us/

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.wired.com/story/the-6-billion-dollar-shot-at-making-new-antibiotics-before-the-old-ones-fail/

Freeman writes:Cable company's accidental email to rival discusses plan to block competition

Runaway1956 writes:https://phys.org/news/2022-11-earth-temperature-millennia.html

An Anonymous Coward writes:Cascade Lake and Skylake prove even more expensive than expected:

Fnord666 writes:This would increase the odds of finding another prehistoric human body in melting ice:

fab23 writes:Again a publication from Brian Krebs with a lot of insight and technical details (with screenshots as well):

An Anonymous Coward writes:Employee expenses were approved by posting emoji in Slack channels, DMs:

Runaway1956 writes:"You'll get to know the difference when you either die or you pass through":

Fnord666 writes:Active in dozens of advanced hacks since 2009, Billbug is still going strong:

mrpg writes:Conservation efforts and fishery management have allowed tuna and billfish to recover:

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.wired.com/story/ftx-hack-theft-crypto-tracing/

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/15/amazon-antitrust-german-fco-special-abuse-controls/

Runaway1956 writes:

fliptop writes:The tiny animated duck is a replica of a toy created by the company's founders:

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.infoworld.com/article/3678178/beyond-c-the-promise-of-rust-carbon-and-cppfront.html#tk.rss_all

Fnord666 writes:Researchers break security guarantees of TTE networking used in spacecraft

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.wired.com/story/the-man-behind-mastodon-eugen-rochko-built-it-for-this-moment/

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/14/india-lifts-download-ban-on-vlc/

Poland Missile: False Alarmtakyon writes:Ukraine war: Russia denies responsibility for Poland blast

An Anonymous Coward writes:It's a bad month for layoffs in tech

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takyon writes:Hungry for AI? New supercomputer contains 16 dinner-plate-size chips

acid andy writes:Researchers for the Human Brain Project have published a theory about how we become conscious of a sensory stimulus, which has been likened to a surfer timing when to catch a wave.

The launch of Artemis 1 has been successful - the next burn (trans lunar injection - TLI) is in about 20 minutes away to take Artemis on its way to the Moon.

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-63634557

hubie writes:The Selfish Herd Hypothesis posits that zebras zigzagging for the middle of a herd should be safest from the lion, but a recent study suggests otherwise:

Air Force's Mysterious Spaceplane Finally Lands After Spending 2.5 Years in OrbitAn Anonymous Coward writes:https://gizmodo.com/air-force-spaceplane-lands-after-nearly-3-years-1849779297

janrinok writes:A new way to make stretchy wiring uses ultrasound and microscopic spheres of liquid metal

An Anonymous Coward writes:Covid lockdowns prompted a surge of new cyclists. But the trend has faltered in places that didn't build bike-friendly infrastructure.

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://mashable.com/article/space-solar-system-white-dwarf-discovery

mrpg writes:https://www.sciencenews.org/article/canaanite-comb-lice-israel-alphabetEngraved into the side of a nearly 4,000-year-old ivory comb is a simple wish: Get these lice out of my hair.

An Anonymous Coward writes:The iPhone maker knows a lot about what a user does on their phone

acid andy writes:Researchers for the Human Brain Project have trained a large-scale computer model of the mouse primary visual cortex to accurately solve five visual tasks.

hubie writes:Want to fire up the dance floor? Play low-frequency bass:

owl writes:https://www.righto.com/2022/11/the-unusual-bootstrap-drivers-inside.html

mrpg writes:A spacecraft no bigger than a microwave oven will become the first CubeSat to orbit the Moon:

hubie writes:Beer hops compounds could help protect against Alzheimer's disease: